There is an entire masechta called makos, about beating people up. Do you believe that�s what our creator wanted for us? That if Torah ruled, we would whip people who won�t listen, or kill them chas vishalom? I�ve got a totally different view that I wish to share. One about what Sanhedrin was meant to be and two about what the Torah was meant to be. If this gets posted, you�ll see how humanity has failed.
A Sanhedrin that killed more than once in seventy years was called a killer bes din. With the guilty mentality most people have nowadays, if those people ran Sanhedrin, it clearly would be run wrong. Must be, the job of judgment wasn�t to judge likaf chov, rather to judge likaf zechus. So much so, that no matter the case, there was a requirement to see positivity in others. Sanhedrin was made of humans judging. There was absolutely no way another human could fully comprehend what another human went through to get to that point of being judged, as we don�t know all the steps every human took in life that led up to whatever action was taken. So if Sanhedrin was meant to be so merciful and kind, so much more so hakadosh baruch hu that knows everything that happened up to that point and has 13 attributes of mercy, for sure after 120 years we are not being put into a fiery furnace. That�s one perspective to sit over. The other is regarding yitzias mitzrayim. Having been just freed from slavery, we finally made it through to har sinai to get the Torah and hashem holds a mountain over our heads and says accept the Torah or die right here under the mountain. If we were forced, then even according to the Torah it was a case of oness rachmanah patreh. There is a deeper message one can take that is not seen. What follows this display of power was us all calling out we will do and we will listen. The surprise afterwards was that the first 2 commandments were given by hashem, yet we were scared of dying again so the rest of the commandments were given through a human, where perceptions are automatically skewed as it�s not coming directly from hashem to us. So we do have the capability to fully comprehend the first 2 commandments. Therefore what did it all mean? My understanding is that after the fear of dying under the mountain, Hashem then put the mountain down and gave the first two commandments together. Anochi hashem and lo yihyeh licha. Meaning, hashem took us out of mitzrayim where it was forced labor, no freedom, no choices, denial meant death. We were slaves. Now that we were freed, our job was not to accept judgement of others to make us subservient again. To understand that there is greatness with the ananei hakovod, that we still do not experience today, because of Galus. Perhaps if you were to see my view, you�d understand that this world has no value to me without the protection of the ananei Hakavod.
